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In vain they fall back on their pens and indite letters and proclamations, their President out-letters and out-proclaims them. Trochu is indeed a sort of military Ollivier. He earned his spurs as a military critic, Ollivier as a civil critic. Both are clever, and eminently respectable in their private relations, and both are verbose, unpractical, and wanting in plain common sense.
Croker to Warren, Nov. 18, 1812, and March 20, 1813. British Admiralty MSS. Out-Letters. Niles' Register, vol. iii. p. 111. Quoted from a publication of 1759. The Prince Regent. George III. was incapacitated at this time. Admiralty Out-Letters, British Records Office. Rodgers to the Secretary, April 29, 1812. Decatur, June 16, 1812. Captains' Letters.
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